St. Landry democrat., 1887-07-23

Fire in Hurley, Wis, originating in
theatre, destroyed the business portion c
the town. Many persons were burned t
leath.
A revolution has occurred in Honolulu
md King Kalakaua has been forced to ap
'oint new ministry
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, was hange'
IN effigy at Dalton, from gallows erected t,
hang Holman, sentenced to death for mur
dering young woman in Whitfield count,
last year, because he commuted the sentenc
to imprisonment for life. Four thousant
people, who had hocked to Dalton to witnes
the hanging of Holman became so indig
nant at Governor Gordc MS action that the,
heaped upon his efficy every indignity.
The opinion is expressed in St. Louis tina
he Grand Army will be the chief suffere
~ the refusal of the President to visit St
Louis. Already several business houses hav,
declined to pay subscriptions they made t.
the Grand Army fund. One subscriber said
Il think the Grand Army fund will be re
duced S25, 900 by the Presidents letter anc
lis refusal to come to the city"
The rear car of the seashore express train
that left Altoona. Pa, bound eastward
jumped the track short distance below the
depot and overturned. Twenty passengers
were in the car, but all escaped injury ex,
cept Mrs Lewis DenclerS and her four-year
old daughter, who were injured, but not
seriously.
By premature explosion of giant powder
while blasting rock on the Carolina railroad,
near the Catawba river, in Lancaster county,
s. C., one white man and eight negroes were
instantly killed.
Discomfort is spreading among the Knights
OF Labor iron and steel workers throughout
the country because the general officers of
the order have not granted them a charter
for national trades assembly.
The strike of the oil workers at Point
Breeze, Philadelphia is over, and the works
of the Philadelphia and Atlantic Refining
Companies will start in full operation shortly
Barkley Peak, convicted at Mount Holly,
N. j., Of the murder of Mary Anderson, has
been sentenced to be hanged on September l.
Pleuro- pneumonia made its appearance
few days ago in the town of Westchester, N.
Y, and the disease has extended to the extern
sive stock farm of VIM. Havemeyer, on
Throggs Neck, where number of valuable
blooded cattle have been taken sick.
All the hotel-keepers in Huntingdon, Pa,
were refused licenses in February last, and
they all have signed an agreement to close
Court is expected to render decision.
While playing baseball in Manayunk,
Philadelphia, Edward McDade, aged sixteen
years, was struck in the neck With ball and
had his windpipe split. He died soon after
he had been taken to his home.
tits reported that Monsignor Scilla has in
formed the Pope that the time had not yet
arrived to establish a nunciature or apostolic
delegation at London, although some official
link between England and the Vatican
seemed not only expedient but imperative
The report of Sir Edward Thornton and
Mr.. Braithwaite respecting their efforts to
obtain some adjustment of the Virginia debt
satisfactory to the English bondholders states
that there was no sincere desire on the part
of the Virginia representatives to arrive at
any settlement with the bondholders on
terms other than such as the State may die
tate.
chancery has summoned all guardians and
trustees having Russian stock under their
management to appear before the court
within week for the purpose of deciding
how they shall otherwise invest the money
intrusted to them.
Fire in Stuart's drug store, at Bryan,
Tex, destroyed that and other property.
Loss 10000.
Stern Chittenden, New York lawyer,
visiting his brother, Rev. R. L. Chittenden,
Episcopal minister in charge at Paradise,
Lancaster county, Pa, committed suicide
Friday evening. He went out into the barn.
yard and cut his throat and the arteries in
both wrists with razor, and when found by
his brother was about dying.
A trestle-work bridge in course of construc-
ton on the Illinois Central road, near the
town of Lombard, ILL.,, collapsed, killing
Joseph Fox, of Oswego, N. Y, and Chas.
wounded. Albert Bayers and an
other son of Mr.. Fox received serious in
juries.
Jacob Robinson shot and killed Samuel
Hay, Jr., near Charleston, Ind. 1t was
deliberate murder in continuation of feud
which their fathers began half a century
ago, and which the sons took up. Robinson
used double barrel shotgun, and fired both
barrels. Both men were wealthy.
Clarence Gibbs, colored, of Philadelphia,
vas shot and probably fatally wounded in
hat city by William Cain, also colored. Both
ourted the same girl.
The Holland (Pa.) postofice and store of
Joseph Finney; on the Newtown railroad,
vas broken into and robbed of $500, beside
tuantity of stamps and merchandise.
The $4,000 M. E. church, recently dam
ged by cyclone at jamestown. O., was
truck by lightning and destroyed Other
uildings were burned.
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie laid the foundation
tone of the new free library building in
edinburgh, for the endowment Of which he
donated s25O,OOO. Mr.. Blaine was present
nd made an address.
There have been forty cases of cholera and
fifteen deaths from disease among the troops
t Catania, Italy. Three Catanians have
led of cholera at Palermo. The alarm is
preading.
John Vanston and J. A. Clum, Americans
re under arrest at Paso Del Norte for high